skatamatic
01-31-2003, 05:04 PM
well, this is just a little rant to try to warn people about TC spoiler's crappy products so sorry if it bothers anyone.
anyways, i got my hood from them about 8 or so months ago after waiting about 3 months (that was the first thing that bothered me) and when it arrived, it had a large wave in the fiber down the left side. a friend of mine also ordered one at the same time and her's had numerous chips and other minor imperfections, however nothing was too severe. not wanting to deal with shipping anything back out (she already had to send 1 back due to it being damaged while shipping and wait numerous months), we both put them on and were fairly happy with them.
fast foward to about a month ago and my friend rox (impact blue on here) notices that her's has a small crack down the left side that looks about like a piece of hair. we figured it was from the hoodpins she put in it (i never installed them on mine so that was our reasoning) and that it was just a mistake on our part. then, a couple of days later another crack shows up on the other side near the hood pin hole, but then several more isolated ones appear. this led us to believe that the hood itself was faulty and that the pins didn't really have much to do with it. now the hood has at least 5 or 6 and they don't seem to be stopping.
then, as of tonight i just noticed that mine has started to crack in the same place, even without having holes drilled for hood pins. i'm worried that it's just the start of a whole series like her's, but maybe i'll luck out. either way, it still sucks and i just wanted to express my opinion of their products. once i get some good pics i'm going to write them saying what happened, but i doubt it will do any good since it does say "all hoods are sold as-is" on their web-site.
well, sorry about the long post but i just don't want anyone else to have to put up with their unsatisfactory products like we have.
-cody
anyways, i got my hood from them about 8 or so months ago after waiting about 3 months (that was the first thing that bothered me) and when it arrived, it had a large wave in the fiber down the left side. a friend of mine also ordered one at the same time and her's had numerous chips and other minor imperfections, however nothing was too severe. not wanting to deal with shipping anything back out (she already had to send 1 back due to it being damaged while shipping and wait numerous months), we both put them on and were fairly happy with them.
fast foward to about a month ago and my friend rox (impact blue on here) notices that her's has a small crack down the left side that looks about like a piece of hair. we figured it was from the hoodpins she put in it (i never installed them on mine so that was our reasoning) and that it was just a mistake on our part. then, a couple of days later another crack shows up on the other side near the hood pin hole, but then several more isolated ones appear. this led us to believe that the hood itself was faulty and that the pins didn't really have much to do with it. now the hood has at least 5 or 6 and they don't seem to be stopping.
then, as of tonight i just noticed that mine has started to crack in the same place, even without having holes drilled for hood pins. i'm worried that it's just the start of a whole series like her's, but maybe i'll luck out. either way, it still sucks and i just wanted to express my opinion of their products. once i get some good pics i'm going to write them saying what happened, but i doubt it will do any good since it does say "all hoods are sold as-is" on their web-site.
well, sorry about the long post but i just don't want anyone else to have to put up with their unsatisfactory products like we have.
-cody